Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Sierra Leone and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Gabor Szabo to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All The Sisters of Mercy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Royal Trux record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronnie Foster,
Todd Terry,
Glenn Branca,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Icehouse,
the Human League,
Connie Case,
Patti Smith,
Smog,
Hot Snakes,
Camberwell Now,
DJ Sneak,
Mad Mike,
Wings,
The Gladiators,
Juan Atkins,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Laurel Aitken,
Harmonia,
Roger Hodgson,
Technova,
Henry Cow,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Vladislav Delay,
The Red Krayola,
Dark Day,
Joe Smooth,
The Leaves,
Jesper Dahlback,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Toni Rubio,
Flamin' Groovies,
Can,
The Durutti Column,
Josef K,
Radio Birdman,
Kerri Chandler,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Malaria!,
In Retrospect,
Quantec,
Joe Finger,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
DJ Style,
Half Japanese,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Five Americans,
PIL,
Oneida,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
James White and The Blacks,
Sam Rivers,
Matthew Bourne,
Ituana,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Silicon Teens,
Soulsonic Force,
Freddie Wadling,
Desert Stars,
The Grass Roots,
June Days,
Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.